HADLEY v. STATE

No. 28430.

294 S.W.2d 717 (1956)

Helen K. HADLEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. F. Patterson, San Antonio, E. Colley Sullivan, Dallas, for appellant.

Hubert W. Green, Jr., Crim. Dist. Atty., Elbert Hooper, Jr., Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for theft of a man's suit of the value in excess of $50; the punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

The state's testimony shows that appellant was found in the possession of a suit of clothes which had been recently stolen from Joske's in San Antonio. The circumstances abundantly authorize the conclusion that appellant was a "shoplifter" and that she acquired the suit by theft.

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